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SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Coffee/tea break
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DESCRIPTION:Breakfast and coffee break
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
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SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Coffee/tea break
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T091500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T094500
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DESCRIPTION:Breakfast and coffee break
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
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SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Coffee/tea break
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T091500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T094500
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DESCRIPTION:Breakfast and coffee break
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
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SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Keynote Session
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T103000
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DESCRIPTION:Community Discussion about Generative AI: Where do we go from 
 here? Identifying ethical conflicts\, risks and opportunities
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Saturday Keynote: Fedicon Panel
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T094500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T103000
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Karen Sandler\nDescription coming soon!
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/478/
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SUMMARY:CanRepair!  Exploring Canada's World-Leading Right to Repair Effor
 ts
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T094500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T102500
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Denver Gingerich\nThe right to repair (R2R) movement 
 has existed in many forms for over a century.  Software\, and the FOSS mov
 ement in particular (a subset of this larger R2R movement)\, is becoming m
 ore critical to these efforts.\nExciting work being done here in Canada gr
 ounds the incredible global  movement that continues to grow.  Join us for
  this panel to learn about recent developments in the broader right to rep
 air movement\, how people leading the movement in Canada got their start\,
  and how right to repair is improving both in Canada and around the world.
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/477/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Registration
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T101500
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DESCRIPTION:Registration Open
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Keynote Session
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T102500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T103500
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DESCRIPTION:Presentation of the Distinguished Service Award in Software Fr
 eedom
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:What Other Toolchains Should Copy From Plan 9
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T104500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T113000
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Anthony Sorace\nDevelopment in Plan 9 follows a very 
 traditional workflow\, with most software written in C and compilation dri
 ven by mk\, a make-like tool. But\, like the rest of the system\, the deve
 lopment environment was written from scratch\, providing the opportunity t
 o make different choices throughout the environment. Everything from the n
 aming of the compilers to system conventions for where binaries and librar
 ies are stored was re-evaluated with the networked and heterogeneous natur
 e of Plan 9 in mind. This has provided a number of affordances that are st
 ill uncommon in other systems.\n\nIn particular\, building software on Pla
 n 9 across architectures\, from ‘cat’ to the kernel\, typically involv
 es setting a single environment variable\, then building like normal. The 
 entire userspace system can be rebuilt across architectures this way\, wit
 h a single command\; one server can build the kernels for all supported ar
 chitectures.\n\nAs something of a case study\, we’ll look at how the go 
 toolchain has applied these lessons\, well outside the Plan 9 world\, to m
 ake building across both operating systems and architectures surprisingly 
 easy. We’ll also look at an ongoing project to make the Plan 9 developme
 nt toolchain available in other environments.\n\nThe hope of this talk is 
 that folks working on newer toolchains\, particularly for newer environmen
 ts\, might be able to productively apply these ideas and make development 
 more pleasant for everyone.
LOCATION:CEME 1212
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/388/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:The PHP Foundation and The Challenge of Sustaining Critical Digita
 l Infrastructure
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Elizabeth Barron\nUsed by over 34 million websites\, 
 PHP powers a large portion of the web. But as a community-owned language w
 ithout a single owner\, sustaining the language has become a shared challe
 nge. The PHP Foundation was created to support those efforts by funding co
 ntributors and strengthening the growing ecosystem without direct governan
 ce\, helping ensure this critical piece of digital open source infrastruct
 ure continues to thrive.\n\nThis talk explores The PHP Foundation’s orig
 ins\, its unique relationship with the PHP community\, and how it not only
  supports maintainers and ongoing development of the language\, but also h
 ow it supports the other pieces of the PHP ecosystem. We’ll examine how 
 this model differs from traditional open source foundations and what it re
 veals about sustaining widely used\, but often underfunded\, technologies.
  \n\nAttendees will leave with a clearer understanding of how critical dig
 ital infrastructure is maintained and why evolving sustainability models m
 atter for the future of open source.
LOCATION:MCLD 2002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/444/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Loops: One Year Later
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dan Supernault\nLast year at FediCon I gave a keynote
  on Pixelfed and previewed Loops\, a federated answer to short-form video.
  Twelve months later\, Loops is a working platform: a Laravel backend spea
 king ActivityPub\, a Vue 3 frontend\, and native React Native apps on iOS 
 and Android. This talk is a candid look at the year between the preview an
 d the platform.\n\nI’ll walk through what shipped: the For You feed with
 out surveillance\, federation with the wider fediverse\, creator tools\, S
 tarter Kits\, and Playlists. I’ll also cover what it actually took to bu
 ild all of this across three stacks as a single\, community-funded develop
 er\, including the hard problems unique to federating video\, the trade-of
 fs I made\, and where Loops goes from here.\n\nIf you care about what ethi
 cal short-form video looks like\, or about shipping ambitious open-source 
 software without VC backing\, this talk is for you.
LOCATION:CEME 1202
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/469/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:From iptables to bpfilter: a fast\, simple firewall for Linux
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T104500
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yaakov Stein\niptables and nftables have been the sta
 ndard for Linux packet filtering for years. They work well\, but as rulese
 ts grow or network bandwidth increases\, performance can become a bottlene
 ck.\n\nbpfilter takes a different approach. It compiles filtering rules fr
 om an iptables-like DSL into efficient BPF programs\, giving you faster pa
 cket processing without asking you to learn how to write complex BPF progr
 ams.\n\nThis talk covers:\n- How bpfilter compares to existing tools and w
 hat tradeoffs it makes\n- How to use it from a user's perspective\n- Where
  the project is headed and how the community can get involved\n\nYou'll le
 ave with a clear picture of whether bpfilter is worth trying and how to ge
 t started.
LOCATION:CEME 1210
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/448/
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SUMMARY:Co-Building the Future: AI Alignment for Open Source Communities
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T104500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T113000
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Emma Irwin\nAI is possible because open communities h
 ave collaborated and shared openly licensed code and content. AI models ar
 e dependent on thousands of open source projects to function\, and have re
 lied on countless open resources to obtain the level of intelligence we se
 e today. One might even say that without access to openly licensed code an
 d content\, AI would lack the context of humanity altogether. Communities 
 are on the defensive: reactively creating policies around how AI may\, if 
 at all\, interact with humans or the output of their labour. We've also se
 en (among other reactive approaches) projects change licenses\, communitie
 s change platforms\, bug bounty programs shut down\, policies ban AI contr
 ibutions\, and writers add subscription barriers to combat the unknown.\n\
 n> "In the field of artificial intelligence (AI)\, alignment aims to steer
  AI systems toward a person's or group's intended goals\, preferences\, or
  ethical principles. An AI system is considered aligned if it advances the
  intended objectives. A misaligned AI system pursues unintended objectives
 ."  - AI Alignment\, Wikipedia\n\nThe CHAOSS AI Alignment for Open Source 
 Working Group (under the Linux Foundation) is a cross-community collaborat
 ion of practitioners working to define and build solutions that give power
  back to communities by providing tools and metrics to help communities mo
 ve from objects of consumption to owners and facilitators of their future.
  In this talk\, we will share efforts to define "what success looks like" 
 for AI alignment with open communities around use\, consent\, embedded fee
 dback\, and detection. Specifically\, we will cover:\n\n* Metric: AI Use +
  Consent (declaration). A metric focused on evaluating AI use and adherenc
 e to community policies.\n* Metric: AI Community Feedback (measurement). A
  metric model that focuses on whether feedback to providers produces obser
 vable change\, at what cost\, and whether the exchange is proportional to 
 the effort.\n* Tool: CHAOSS AI Detection Action (inform/enable enforcement
 ). Communities verify what is happening. The tool surfaces AI-authored or 
 AI-assisted contributions from commit-level signals\, including AI tool ty
 pe and declared use.\n\nAs Shannon Vallor writes in The AI Mirror (which f
 ocuses on ethics + AI)\, these systems "show only where the data say that 
 we have already been\, never where we might venture together for the first
  time." AI reflects our creative and imperfect pasts. We hope this work ca
 n help us forge a more optimistic future with communities in the driver's 
 seat.
LOCATION:MCLD 3002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/443/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:10 Ways To Grow The Fediverse
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Evangelo S. Prodromou\nHow can we continue to grow th
 e Fediverse? In this talk\, Evan Prodromou\, research director at the Soci
 al Web Foundation and author of "ActivityPub: Programming for the Social W
 eb"\, will discuss upcoming initiatives to grow the population and activit
 y of the Fediverse. He'll discuss work done by the SWF so far\, and upcomi
 ng tools\, projects and services to make using the Fediverse easier and mo
 re pleasant.
LOCATION:MCLD 2018
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/467/
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SUMMARY:A day in the life of KDE QA -  how testing and triage help develop
 ment
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tracey Clark\nEver wondered what happens to all the b
 ug reports that get submitted? Wanted to help out with bug triage but didn
 't know how to get started? Want to know how bug reports help developers t
 ake action? Come find out!
LOCATION:MCLD 2002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/395/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Community Event Organizing
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T104500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T113000
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Michael Dexter\nAnyone can organize a community event
  and there are important factors to consider when your event grows in size
 . Learn the key elements\, factors\, strategies\, tips\, and techniques fo
 r successful events from a FOSS community member who has organized or co-o
 rganized approximately 200 events of all sizes around the world. Learn abo
 ut:\n\n* Venues\n* Scheduling\n* Registration\n* Calls for Participation\n
 * Streaming and Inclusion\n* Teambuilding\n* Finances\n* Food
LOCATION:MCLD 2002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/458/
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SUMMARY:When Data Gets Heavy: Voice and Video for Large Groups
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T104500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T113000
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Christopher Vollick\nText chat is relatively easy on 
 the modern internet\, but high quality audio\, video\, or desktop streamin
 g starts to push the limits as the number of participants goes up. This ta
 lk will discuss the way that XMPP negotiates such datastreams\, how it wor
 ks in groups today\, and an overview of solutions such as Selective Forwar
 ding Units and Multipoint Control Units which could allow groups to grow f
 ar further. While these topics are technical\, the presentation will attem
 pt to explain them such that anyone who is curious will be able to get up 
 to speed.
LOCATION:MCLD 3038
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/370/
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SUMMARY:The Open Source AI Definition: Where Do We Go From Here
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T113000
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Duane O'Brien\nStarting in 2022\, the Open Source Ini
 tiative began a multi-year effort to convene the community and craft a def
 inition to describe Open Source AI. After two years of collaboration with 
 the community\, we released the Open Source AI Definition 1.0. While this 
 marked an important milestone in this process\, there is more work to be d
 one. The community continues to have feedback on the definition\, and the 
 industry continues to evolve as these technologies progress. The conversat
 ion is far from over.\n\nA lot has happened in the last two years. It is i
 mportant that we continue to examine this work\, analyze the ongoing lands
 cape\, and continue to build community consensus when it comes to Open Sou
 rce AI. We’ve seen the emergence of models using OSI-approved licenses\,
  industry convergence on the term “open models\,” and a policy landsca
 pe that has a direct impact on how these technologies are built and adopte
 d. Data continues to be a complicated part of this discussion\, and we’r
 e starting to see good analysis of open versus closed AI systems that can 
 inform our thinking.\n\nIn this talk\, I will present an overview of the O
 SI’s plans to continue this conversation. I will outline a new two-year 
 program and our strategy for further engaging the community as we produce 
 research\, analysis\, workshops\, and white papers in the Open Source AI d
 omain. This will include actionable guidance for how to participate in thi
 s process\, and opportunities to help us bring a broader set of voices int
 o the discussion.
LOCATION:MCLD 3002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/439/
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SUMMARY:Encrypt Your Servers
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T113000
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Romeo Solano\nEncrypting the data stored on the disks
  of your server systems is a valuable tool that helps protect yourself and
  your users. This protects you from power-hungry privacy-hating government
 s and corrupt service providers\, and it simplifies the e-cycling process.
  Say goodbye to DBAN and hello to LUKS.\n\nThis talk will cover both how t
 o set up your encrypted server and how to encrypt some of the data on an e
 xisting unencrypted system. You will learn how to automate decryption unsa
 fely and safely\, and how to recover from reboots without needing physical
  access to your machine.\n\nWe'll talk about the overhead of software encr
 yption and some of the trade-offs made.\n\nThe examples used in this prese
 ntation will be for Ubuntu Server\, but they should be portable to any dis
 tro of your choice.\n\nA full writeup can be found on punkto.org.
LOCATION:MCLD 2012
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/417/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:California Banned Your Operating System: Age verification mandates
  and FOSS
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Eric Schultz\nSeemingly weekly\, a new center-left or
  left-leaning government proposes requiring OS-level Age Attestation APIs.
  Already required in Brazil and starting in 2027 in California\, these law
 s require operating system providers to pass age information about the dev
 ice user to any third-party application that requests it. Eric Schultz div
 es into the effect of these laws and the politics around them in the FOSS 
 community\, the furor in the Desktop Linux community over compliance\, the
 ir effect on the safety of minors (especially from marginalized communitie
 s)\, why they think they are gaining traction among left-leaning politicia
 ns\, and how this crisis challenges the FOSS community's relationship to t
 he wider world.
LOCATION:MCLD 2012
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/445/
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SUMMARY:Anotomy of a 3D Printer AGPLv3 violation(s)
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T113000
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bradley M. Kühn\nSFC [launched the baltobu project](
 https://sfconservancy.org/news/2026/may/18/bambu-studio-3d-printer-agpl-vi
 olation-response/) in response to ongoing AGPLv3 violations the 3D printer
  manufacturer\, Bambu Labs.  Come to this session to learn about the detai
 ls of the various AGPLv3 violations the approaches that SFC is taking to r
 espond to them.
LOCATION:MCLD 2012
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/432/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Open Cooperatives from HVAC to Media Libraries: An Economic Propos
 al for Better Tech
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T113000
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jason Prince\nIf you\, like me\, feel that everything
  is suffering from an increasingly inescapable pressure to make someone el
 se big bucks quick or perish\, then I hope to offer you some uplifting ide
 as (including some refrigerant trivia and Building Science). Let's explore
  the synergy between libre-licensed biztech systems and employee-owned coo
 peratives\, and how this combo can both be sustainable today and thrive in
  the future. We'll take a look at the ongoing transformation of the entire
  HVAC/R industry and see how building mechanical systems are primed for an
  open-source revolution. Then we'll push the principles further and imagin
 e what's possible when the underlying economic engines are tuned for stabl
 e\, sustainable improvement rather than growth. I'll introduce a concept f
 or a "local personal data system" and how such an abstraction can tie toge
 ther the technical and economic aspects of this potential future. Througho
 ut\, we'll ponder how we can all benefit from\, and gain more agency over\
 , our own work and devices (and indoor air quality).  Libre Is The Only Wa
 y To Plug-n-Play\, so let's build a tech economy to support that future - 
 no catastrophic destruction required!
LOCATION:CEME 1202
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/479/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Talk
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T113000
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LOCATION:MCLD 3038
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Break
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T114500
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URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Break
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T113000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T114500
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URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Break
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T113000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T114500
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SUMMARY:UnifiedPush - Push notifications. Decentralized and Open Source
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T114500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T123000
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Daniel Gultsch\nTo understand how we can replace Goog
 le push notifications (FCM) with something open source and decentralized\,
  we need to understand how they work and why they are needed in the first 
 place. This talk explains the mechanics of push notifications and why\, de
 spite their potentially bad reputation\, they are a more elegant solution 
 than having every app maintain its own persistent server connection.\n\nOp
 en-source tools like microG can remove proprietary Google software from yo
 ur Android phone\, the actual notifications are still sent via Google's se
 rvers (Firebase Cloud Messaging).\n\n[UnifiedPush](https://unifiedpush.org
 /) is a framework that allows push notifications to be delivered in a dece
 ntralized manner or through self-hosted servers. UnifiedPush has a plugabl
 e architecture that allows push notifications to be delivered through diff
 erent protocols (Websockets\, SSE\, XMPP) this talk will focus on why XMPP
  is particularly well suited to be used as a push protocol. \n\nNumerous o
 pen-source Android apps already support UnifiedPush\, including [Tusky](ht
 tps://tusky.app/)\, Ltt.rs\, Fedilab\, [DAVx⁵](https://www.davx5.com/)\,
  Fennec\, Element\, and many more. \n\nThe presentation ends with a short 
 demo on how to use the XMPP client Conversations to deliver push notificat
 ions to other apps on Android using UnifiedPush.
LOCATION:MCLD 3038
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/372/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:RAID sucks (and what we can do about it)
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T123000
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Christoph Hellwig\nRedundant Array of Independent Dis
 ks (RAID) has long been used to store large amounts of data while protecti
 ng against data loss\nand improving performance over that of a single disk
 .\n\nNaive RAID implementations always have had problems providing full da
 ta integrity in the face of system crashes or power failures\, and cannot 
 keep up with the increased performance of modern SSDs. Furthermore\, no so
 lution exists today to handle the sequential write constraint of zoned sto
 rage (e.g. SMR HDDs) which makes up an ever-increasing share of shipped st
 orage capacity.\n\nThis talk unveils a new solution that supports full dat
 a integrity and supports all modern storage devices based on existing file
  system code in the Linux kernel.
LOCATION:CEME 1210
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/451/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Art of the Fork: Reclaiming Community Trust
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T123000
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Edward Ly\nOn March 27th\, 2026\, a coalition of Euro
 pean companies including IONOS and Nextcloud announced "[Euro-Office](http
 s://github.com/Euro-Office)\," an AGPLv3-licensed fork of OnlyOffice. Whil
 e public discourse has rightly focused on the legal nuances of the AGPLv3 
 license\, this talk will rather focus on one of the project's other key ob
 jectives: liberating the codebase from a vendor accused of "open-washing."
 \n\nUsing Euro-Office and other high-profile forks as case studies\, we wi
 ll examine the critical role forks play when corporate stewardship fails a
 nd trust breaks down. We will move beyond the headlines to dissect the dis
 tinct factors that determine whether a fork thrives or withers\, revealing
  that community cohesion and governance are often more decisive than code 
 quality alone. Finally\, we will provide a practical framework for develop
 ers considering a fork\, drawing on historical precedents to outline the r
 isks\, benefits\, and essential strategies for building a sustainable comm
 unity.
LOCATION:MCLD 2002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/404/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Decentralised Badges with BadgeFed
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T114500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T123000
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
UID:306@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Maho Pacheco\nBadgeFed is an open-source digital badg
 e platform that combines Open Badges and ActivityPub to bring credentials 
 into the federated social web. In this talk\, I’ll show how nonprofits a
 nd communities can issue\, share\, and verify badges without vendor lock-i
 n using a self-hostable .NET application that runs on Linux. We’ll cover
  the architecture behind federated credentials\, lessons learned building 
 BadgeFed\, and how decentralized recognition can make badges more portable
 \, resilient\, and community-owned.
LOCATION:CEME 1202
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/470/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Talk
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T114500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T123000
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
UID:326@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:MCLD 3038
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Lessons from Three Feature Deployments in a Stewarded Open Source 
 Project
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T114500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T123000
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
UID:405@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Matthew Gaughan\nFOSS project stewards are increasing
 ly responsible for technical development\, maintenance\, and project organ
 ization. The result are increasingly professionalized\, centralized projec
 ts\, where paid steward-affiliates drive project development while externa
 l contributors merely try to get involved. This is troubling for independe
 nt FOSS contributors\, who provide critical labor despite often being push
 ed to the margins. How can independent contributors make their voice heard
  in stewarded project development? How can stewards organize project proce
 dures for more harmonious collaboration? In this talk\, I offer takeaways 
 and findings from studying three feature deployments in MediaWiki\,  the w
 iki framework stewarded by the Wikimedia Foundation.
LOCATION:MCLD 2002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/455/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:From Prompts to Runtime Signals: Making Open-Source AI Systems Mor
 e Trustworthy
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T114500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T123000
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
UID:337@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rishabh Banga\nOpen-source AI systems are getting eas
 ier to assemble: pick a model\, add retrieval\, wire up a few tools\, and 
 you can get something impressive working quickly. But getting that same sy
 stem to behave reliably in production is a different problem. This talk is
  about the gap between “it works in a demo” and “it can be trusted i
 n use.”\n\nAttendees will leave with a clearer way to think about trust 
 layers for open-source AI systems\, where these systems tend to fail in pr
 actice\, and what design patterns can make them more usable beyond demos.\
 n\nUsing lessons from building applied AI systems\, I’ll show why prompt
 s alone are not enough\, why offline evaluations often miss real-world fai
 lure modes\, and why trust in AI systems has to be treated as a systems pr
 oblem rather than just a model problem. The session will focus on practica
 l ways to make open-source AI workflows more trustworthy through runtime s
 ignals such as retrieval quality checks\, confidence proxies\, verificatio
 n layers\, fallback logic\, and failure detection across multi-step workfl
 ows.
LOCATION:MCLD 3002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/441/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:YASF: or Yet another SBOM format
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T114500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T123000
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
UID:348@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sen Hastings\nSBOMs\, or software bills of materials 
 are an important tool for application developers to ensure security and li
 cence compliance at scale\, especially now due to the rise of Software sup
 ply chain attacks.\nImplementing them can be a daunting task however\, esp
 ecially for developers that are new to the game.\nWell\, what better way t
 o learn than by creating A WHOLE NEW FORMAT FOR ONE (in YAML\, no less!)
LOCATION:MCLD 2012
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/429/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Why Ultramarine Chose Plasma
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T114500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T123000
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
UID:354@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jaiden Riordan\nIn Ultramarine 43\, we switched our r
 ecommended Edition to Plasma\, retiring Budgie's place as Flagship Edition
  and killing that brand. \n\nRetiring Flagship was the easy part\, figurin
 g out what to replace it with is the far more interesting story we're here
  to tell.\n\nIn this talk\, I'll walk through the technical and UX decisio
 ns we made along the way. From hours of tinkering\, to finding what truly 
 did work for users\, and how Plasma made the case for itself.\n\nThe switc
 h to Plasma wasn't just the right call\, but the only one\, let's find out
  why.\n\nAlso I'll mention that Ultramarine Plasma Edition is pretty aweso
 me a couple times\, and I'll have stickers\, there's no reason not to come
 .
LOCATION:MCLD 2002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/394/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Copyright is bad\, actually\, and maybe not all the LLMs are
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T114500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T123000
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
UID:407@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Matthew Garrett\nThe rise of LLMs has resulted in a r
 ange of awful real world outcomes - volunteer run services brought to thei
 r knees by scrapers\, creative workers being pushed out of jobs by machine
 s doing their work less well\, data center construction draining local res
 ources. And yet the reality is that\, in the right hands\, they can be use
 ful\, but the reaction of the free software community has largely been foc
 used on the impact of copyright on their output.\n\nLet's look back at the
  beginning of the free software scene\, a time where it wasn't even clear 
 that software could be copyrighted. Let's think about our ideals. Let's co
 nsider what the optimal end goals are. And let's think about whether there
 's an ethical path to enable this technology to be usable by end users in 
 a way that enhance their freedom without diminishing free software and wit
 hout destroying the planet in the process.\n\n(The answer might be no! Tha
 t's ok! I am trying to make a conversation happen)
LOCATION:MCLD 3002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/434/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Talk
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T114500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T123000
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
UID:408@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:MCLD 2012
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:The Cathedral and the Bizarre II: Branches of Faith or\, Committin
 g Code Not Sins
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T114500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T123000
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
UID:409@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Toby Betts\nGit is a major part of modern software de
 velopment. It is the de facto open source version control platform\, enabl
 ing developers worldwide to work concurrently without conflicts. Its robus
 t branching and merging features facilitate both parallel development and 
 efficient project management in a culture that encourages the use of Git a
 s a universal tool for managing code in many varied settings and for adapt
 ing your dev process to fit its design. This talk will outline the TempleO
 S development environment\, tips and tricks for writing software in the Ho
 lyC programming language\, and how an operating system without a network s
 tack can still follow modern development practices.
LOCATION:CEME 1202
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/418/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:New developments in pkgconf 3.0
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T114500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T123000
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
UID:292@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ariadne Conill\npkgconf is the defacto implementation
  of the pkg-config system\, used in most FOSS operating systems to manage 
 dependencies of C and C++ software.\n\nLast year\, at SeaGL\, I presented 
 a talk about pkgconf's history and overall direction.  By the time this ta
 lk is given\, pkgconf 3.0 will have been released.  What parts of the road
 map have been realized?  What features outside the roadmap have been added
 ?  And finally\, how can we further improve the pkg-config system for deve
 lopers?
LOCATION:CEME 1212
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/387/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Herding Cats: Two years of building on AP
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T114500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T123000
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
UID:298@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Julian Lam\nA reflection on NodeBB's two-year journey
  building out its ActivityPub integration. Julian will talk about the curr
 ent state of the developer community\, lessons learned\, and the friends m
 ade along the way. Topics will touch on extending the ActivityPub specific
 ation\, funding your project in Canada and abroad\, and a "State of the Fe
 diverse" review.
LOCATION:MCLD 2018
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/461/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:It Was BSD All Along: Relicensing PHP After 30 Years
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T114500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T123000
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
UID:411@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ben Ramsey\nIn early 2020\, someone asked a question 
 on a PHP mailing list that I couldn't stop thinking about. Their employer 
 only allowed OSI-approved licenses\, and while php.net claimed the PHP Lic
 ense 3.01 was approved\, the OSI's own website showed approval only for ve
 rsion 3.0. I volunteered to sort it out\, and a few months later the OSI g
 ranted legacy approval for 3.01. But the question stuck with me\, and the 
 closer I looked\, the stranger PHP's licensing history got.\n\nPHP didn't 
 always have its own license. It began under the GPL\, became dual-licensed
 \, then settled into the custom PHP and Zend Engine licenses it kept for o
 ver two decades. Neither was GPL-compatible\; one was never OSI-approved. 
 Yet strip away the conditions specific to the PHP Group and Zend\, and wha
 t remains is\, almost word for word\, BSD-3-Clause. Making it official mea
 nt answering a question with no obvious answer: who has the authority to r
 elicense a 30-year-old language whose contributors never signed an agreeme
 nt?\n\nThis is the story of how I answered that question and steered the n
 ew license through\, and what it taught me about copyright\, license stewa
 rdship\, and the distance between what a license intends and what it says.
  It's one project's story\, not a how-to guide—every situation is differ
 ent\, and I'm not a lawyer—but PHP's is a strange and instructive one\, 
 and a window into how tangled software licensing can be.
LOCATION:MCLD 2012
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/431/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Lunch break (on your own)
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T123000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T134500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
UID:226@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:<em>Lunch break (on your own)</em>
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Lunch break (on your own)
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T123000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T140000
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
UID:225@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:<em>Lunch break (on your own)</em>
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Lunch break (on your own)
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T123000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T140000
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
UID:224@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:<em>Lunch break (on your own)</em>
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Opening Remarks
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T134500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T140000
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
UID:227@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Opening Remarks
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Talk
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T134500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T140000
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
UID:397@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Real-time Monitoring and Reporting your Databases
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T144500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
UID:240@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Syed Usman Ahmad\nLearn the art to level up your Data
 base skills and view real-time data in a visualize format and create dashb
 oards that represent your business KPIs and metrics that matters inside Gr
 afana as a complete Observability solution. You will learn from databases 
 to logs\, metrics and so on.\n\nWhether you are just starting your career 
 as a database user for data analytics or already an expert Database Admini
 strator (DBA) to detect the overall performance or a product manager to vi
 ew the usage of the user data\, you need multiple tools and techniques to 
 manipulate data into visual metrics to track the most important KPIs in yo
 ur organization. However\, sharing such information with others can be cha
 llenging as it requires the same skills and tools to get the same results.
 \n\nIn this talk\, we will demonstrate an example of how you can visualize
  and monitor both time-series or cross-sectional data in PostgreSQL/MySQL 
 to represent it in various visualization formats and get key metrics or fi
 nd trends by using Grafana dashboards. Also\, we will gain insight into de
 tails by applying Alerting rules to trigger notifications for any unexpect
 ed results and send it to your entire team.\n\nIt will be an introduction 
 to the Grafana Dashboards and also an excellent opportunity to learn more 
 about utilizing advanced options to effectively extract and represent mean
 ingful data in a human readable visualization.\n\nJoin us to learn more ab
 out Grafana dashboards\, community contributions and share your feedback a
 nd suggestions!
LOCATION:MCLD 3038
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/399/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:From First PR to Release Manager: A Path into Open Source
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T144500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
UID:281@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Daniel Scherzer\nContributing to a big project\, whet
 her it be a programming language developed on GitHub (e.g. PHP or Rust) or
  a popular framework or package (e.g. PHP's Symfony or Rust's bitflags) ca
 n seem intimidating at first. Daniel's first contribution to PHP was a typ
 o fix for a test on August 28\, 2024. Less than a month later\, on Septemb
 er 22\, someone already suggested that Daniel request merge access!\n\nSin
 ce then\, Daniel has written multiple RFCs (including both accepted and re
 jected proposals) for PHP\, successfully applied for merge access\, and ta
 ken on the responsibilities of being one of the Release Managers for PHP 8
 .5 and PHP 8.6. Outside of PHP\, Daniel has also become a contributor to o
 ther open source libraries hosted on GitHub.\n\nIn this talk\, Daniel will
  walk through his experience contributing to open source and the lessons l
 earned along the way. These lessons apply to any project looking for contr
 ibutors\, and any contributor looking for projects.
LOCATION:MCLD 2002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/410/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Talk
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T144500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
UID:315@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:CEME 1212
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Reverse engineering binary blobs on mobile
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T144500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
UID:319@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rob Savoye\nThis talk covers the current progress in 
 successfully reverse engineering the binary blobs on mobile devices\, with
  the longer term goal of creating FOSS replacements. Topics discussed are 
 how the radio subsystem functions\, the protocol layers\, and identifying 
 the functionality of many of the binary blobs\, and how the librephone pro
 ject will replace them utilizing clean room techniques.
LOCATION:MCLD 3014
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/437/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Dude\, where did my tokens go?
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T144500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
UID:339@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nikola Grcevski\nThere’s nothing easy about GenAI O
 bservability. GenAI observability is a moving target\, new frameworks and 
 SDKs appear daily\, while organizations are rapidly integrating AI into th
 eir products. So how does instrumentation keep up with this ever expanding
  ecosystem of tools and libraries? \n\nWhile there are many new frameworks
 \, libraries and SDKs to build GenAI capabilities in applications\, there 
 are only a handful of GenAI vendors that all these libraries use. In this 
 talk\, we show how recent updates to OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation en
 able zero-effort\, cross-language GenAI observability by capturing signals
  at the protocol level\, regardless of the libraries or frameworks in use.
  \n\nWe’ll demo how to capture GenAI signals for core AI agent and MCP s
 erver operation types\, e.g. tool call\, embedding\, rerank\, agent invoca
 tion\, prompt management and resource access\, across multiple GenAI vendo
 rs all with OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation and 100% programming langua
 ge agnostic.
LOCATION:MCLD 3002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/440/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Encrypted messaging interoperability with hybrid bridges in XMPP
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T144500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
UID:333@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Marvin W.\nXMPP was and still is the major open stand
 ard for federated instant messaging\, originally designed to allow bridgin
 g between existing networks. Due to the increased complexity of messaging 
 protocols\, bridging is less prominent for instant messaging and disabling
  end-to-end encryption is usually a drawback when sending messages across 
 messengers.\n\nIn this talk I will show how bridges worked traditionally a
 nd why this can't be done for end-to-end encrypted messaging. I will then 
 introduce the concept of hybrid bridges\, bridges that operate in parts on
  server and client\, and thus allow to maintain end-to-end encryption. And
  I will explain how this related MLS and MIMI\, technologies that I introd
 uced in my last years FOSSY talk.
LOCATION:MCLD 3038
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/374/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Breaking Barriers in High-Performance Computing: Open OnDemand as 
 a Catalyst for Research Innovation
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T144500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
UID:277@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Tannistha Nandi\nOpen OnDemand (OOD) represents a
  paradigm shift in high-performance computing (HPC) accessibility\, transf
 orming how researchers\, scientists\, clinicians\, and students leverage c
 omputational resources for big data projects. For years\, the command-line
  interface has been a significant barrier to entry\, preventing many domai
 n experts from fully utilizing HPC capabilities. Open OnDemand eliminates 
 this obstacle by providing an intuitive web-based portal that democratizes
  access to powerful computing infrastructure without requiring extensive t
 echnical expertise.\nAt the University of British Columbia\, the Advanced 
 Research Computing (ARC) team has embraced this open-source platform\, dep
 loying it across our HPC clusters to serve the diverse research community.
  Our implementation extends beyond basic access\, we have curated an exten
 sive application ecosystem spanning general-purpose tools like RStudio\, J
 upyter notebooks\, and cluster desktops\, alongside specialized domain-spe
 cific software for genomics\, bioinformatics\, and computational chemistry
 . This comprehensive suite enables researchers to focus on their science r
 ather than wrestling with technical complexity.\nThe graphical user interf
 ace has unlocked particularly transformative capabilities in scientific vi
 sualization\, allowing researchers to interactively explore complex datase
 ts and generate insights that were previously difficult or impossible to a
 chieve through command-line workflows alone. This visual paradigm shift ha
 s accelerated discovery across multiple disciplines.\nBeyond local impleme
 ntation\, UBC ARC actively contributes to the global OOD open-source commu
 nity through the Appverse repository\, sharing our custom applications and
  configurations. This bidirectional engagement consuming and contributing 
 exemplifies the collaborative spirit of open-source development and ensure
 s sustainable innovation in research computing infrastructure.\nThis talk 
 will showcase specific applications we have deployed\, demonstrate real-wo
 rld research impacts at UBC\, and discuss our philosophy of giving back to
  the open-source ecosystem that enables our mission to empower researchers
  and advance scientific discovery.
LOCATION:MCLD 2018
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/420/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Talk
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T144500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
UID:299@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:MCLD 2018
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Off-Grid Inter-Neighborhood Networks
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T144500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
UID:310@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Vagrant Cascadian\nWhat if we developed a Federated n
 etwork that was intentionally... not connected to the internet?\n\nAn off-
 line first\, off-grid network...\n\nWhere limited range and high degrees o
 f locality were a feature to help build connections between neighbors?\n\n
 Where slow and possibly infrequent\, sporadic connectivity between neighbo
 rhoods was a design intention\, maybe even a special occasion?\n\nWhere in
 formation could be delivered by bicycle\, or seriously\, why not carrier p
 idgeon?\n\nThere is free software to make this possible already\, time to 
 put the pieces together!
LOCATION:CEME 1202
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/459/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Toward Ethical Use of LLM-gen-AI to advance FOSS
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T144500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
UID:376@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bradley M. Kühn\nThis panel will consider the fundam
 ental question of use of (probably proprietary) use of LLM-backed generati
 ve AI systems to assist in the production\, improvement\, and refinement o
 f FOSS.\n\nMany on the panel were involved in the drafting of [SFC's Recom
 mendations When Using LLM-backed generative AI systems for FOSS contributi
 ons](FIXME_LINK_NOT_PUBLIC_AT_TIME_OF_TALK_SUBMISSION)\, and they welcome 
 inquisitive and lively discussion and rigorous questions from the audience
 .
LOCATION:MCLD 3002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/435/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Uncharted: Lessons from the First University System OSPO Network
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T142000
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
UID:287@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Stephanie Lieggi\nn 2024\, campuses from the UC syste
 m proposed an ambitious idea: building the first systemwide Open Source Pr
 ogram Office (OSPO) network across multiple University of California campu
 ses. Our team had a plan\, Sloan Foundation funding\, and the experience o
 f UC Santa Cruz's pioneering campus OSPO — what we lacked was any concre
 te roadmap drawn by anyone who had done it before. This session is an upda
 te on where we are now — two years in and a little bit wiser. The presen
 ter\, who has chaired the UC Network since its inception\, will share what
  has worked\, what required course corrections\, and what remains genuinel
 y hard. Our goal is that our experience — the detours as much as the pro
 gress — provides a practical guide for others building similar efforts. 
 This talk will highlight the critical role of groups like CURIOSS\, the gl
 obal community of university and research institute OSPOs — because some
  of the challenges we face aren't unique to UC\, even if the scale is. Aca
 demic open source has enormous unrealized potential. Projects like Ceph\, 
 RISC-V\, and Jupyter show what's possible when university research finds i
 ts way to broader adoption and sustainability. Two years in\, we have a cl
 earer picture of both how to do that and how much work remains.
LOCATION:MCLD 2002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/413/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:SFrame V3: Towards efficient stack-tracing in GNU/Linux
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T144500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Indu Bhagat\nFirst released in early 2023\, SFrame (S
 imple Frame) offers a fast and efficient method for stack tracing without 
 relying on frame pointers. A new version of the format\, SFrame V3\, was r
 eleased with Binutils 2.46 (February 2026). Compared to V2\, it features s
 upport for text sizes greater than 2GiB\, more flexibility in representing
  topmost frames\, support for marking outermost frames\, and support for m
 arking signal trampolines\, among other improvements.\n\nIn this talk\, we
  will introduce the format and explore how it interfaces with the Linux ke
 rnel’s deferred unwinder infrastructure (allowing kernel tools like perf
  and other tracing mechanisms to safely read user-space stacks and get rel
 iable user-space stack traces quickly). We will also examine the ongoing i
 ntegration efforts to bring SFrame-based stack tracing holistically to use
 r space.\n\nFinally\, we will map out the missing pieces and call upon the
  community to help drive the seamless\, distro-wide adoption we need to fi
 nally move away from Frame Pointers and reclaim CPU performance on some ta
 rgets.
LOCATION:CEME 1212
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/386/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:From Zero to Linux Kernel Contributor: 750+ Patches Later
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T144500
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Thorsten Blum\nContributing to the Linux kernel can b
 e intimidating at first\, but getting started and having your patches acce
 pted into the mainline kernel is often easier than you might think. In thi
 s talk\, I will share practical tips and learnings from submitting over 75
 0 patches in my first two years as a Linux kernel contributor.
LOCATION:CEME 1210
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/449/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Revival Retrospective: Fedora KDE
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T142000
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Neal Gompa\nFedora KDE has had an exciting few years 
 with a growing community and significant efforts between Fedora and the KD
 E project. This presentation will briefly cover the history and contextual
 ize it for the future developments emerging within the Fedora KDE SIG.
LOCATION:MCLD 2002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/457/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Hacking copyright and regulations for 25years! Past\, present and 
 a call for a future!
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T144500
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nicole Faerber\nThe Free Software Foundation Europe i
 s celebrating its 25th anniversary!\n\nCourt cases\, law\, regulation\, ad
 vocacy\, the landscape is changing. We hacked the copyright system and tod
 ay Free Software is literally everywhere. There is no internet service wit
 hout Free Software\, the vast majority of mobile devices runs software lic
 ensed under Free Software licenses and Free Software has become a corner s
 tone of modern digital life on earth - We have won! But did we really? \n\
 nWith the advent of artificial intelligence we are confronted with a big c
 hallenge: Will Free Software licenses\, an important tool to accomplish ou
 r goals in the Free Software movement\, carry us through the next 25 years
 ? What will be the meaning of "software" at all\, when A.I.s just dump it 
 out\, without any copyright? No license to enforce the four freedoms? Do w
 e\, and how do we\, have to adapt our approach to accomplish software free
 dom? \n\nThe FSFE has worked for 25 years for the right to use\, study\, s
 hare\, and improve software. We worked for device neutrality\, on regulati
 on benefiting Free Software\, on "Public Money? Public Code!"\, legal educ
 ation\, and involving the next generation of young hackers. A lot of what 
 the FSFE did the last 25 years is an uphill battle\, a small pan European 
 NGO against Goliaths of the IT industry. Just right now the FSFE is taking
  part as a key expert in hearings by the European Commission against Apple
 ! The case is argued based on the EU DMA\, the Digital Markets Act\, a EU 
 law that is supposed to protect European customers from being exploited by
  digital monopolists. \n\nIn the work of the FSFE in the past years we lea
 rned that we need to look beyond technology and licenses if we want to pro
 tect personal freedom\, self determination\, and sovereignty.\n\nLet's rev
 iew some challenges and great achievements from these years\, why was the 
 FSFE involved in an anti competition case about Microsoft\, why are we inv
 olved in two cases about Apple right now\, and why do we believe we need m
 ore of such "non-traditional" work for software freedom? In this talk we w
 ill examine examples from 25 years of work for software freedom and what w
 e can learn from them for the future! We cannot continue with the old appr
 oaches\, we need to hack the system again to accomplish software freedom.
LOCATION:MCLD 2012
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/424/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:KDE from Enterprise to Mobile
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T144500
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Troy Dawson\nTwo very different scenarios\, joined by
  KDE.\nWhat do you do when your favorite Enterprise Linux distribution tak
 es out KDE?\nWhat do you do when you want a touch friendly desktop for you
 r tablet or phone?\nJoin Troy as he explains how he\, and the Fedora KDE S
 IG\, made KDE for Enteprise Linux better than ever\, as well a Fedora Plas
 ma Mobile an upcoming place to watch.\nFor Enterprise Linux he'll explain 
 what end users want and how it is being provided.\nFor Plasma Mobile he'll
  talk about what state it is currently in\, use cases\, pain points (usual
 ly hardware related) and his world famous demo's.
LOCATION:MCLD 2002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/393/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Running your own mailing list\, form backend\, and music library t
 ools
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T140000
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Pardis Noorzad\nThis talk walks through three small o
 pen source systems built around clear\nownership of state\, interfaces\, a
 nd operational boundaries.\n[newsletter](https://github.com/djpardis/newsl
 etter) runs mailing list workflows\non Cloudflare Workers\, [form](https:/
 /github.com/djpardis/form) handles embedded\nform submissions with validat
 ion and abuse controls\, and [dj](https://github.com/djpardis/dj)\nreads l
 ocal Serato library data for browser and desktop use. I will cover how\nth
 e projects use APIs\, storage\, async work\, file parsing\, documentation\
 , and setup\npaths to stay understandable while still solving real publish
 ing\, submission\,\nand creative workflow problems.
LOCATION:MCLD 2012
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/416/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Adventures in Onboarding: Episode V - The Server Goes Down
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T144500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gideon Mayhak\nMore tales from the front lines of sup
 porting users of federated services!\n\nIt is a dark time for the Federati
 on. Although a Community Server has been destroyed and rebuilt\, users hav
 e migrated to servers across the network.  Evading the dreaded Proprietary
  Software\, a group of freedom fighters has established a new base on the 
 remote hosting platform of Snikket.\n\nPowerful adversaries seek to grab a
 nd keep control over our digital lives.  Walled gardens abound!  What can 
 we do to take back ownership of how we communicate with each other?...\n\n
 This talk will focus on a case study of surviving an upgrade-gone-wrong of
  a large public server\, and the efforts to help hundreds of users regain 
 access to services and their communication freedom.  We'll discuss common 
 terms related to XMPP and the Jabber network\, look at some of the pitfall
 s inherent in depending on the kindness of strangers\, and talk about what
 's being done to build a brighter tomorrow.\n\nCome learn more about open 
 federated systems and how you can help others join the fight!
LOCATION:MCLD 3038
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/375/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Contributing to OpenHospital: An Undergraduate Team's First Open S
 ource Experience
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T144500
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Abhigna Nimmagadda\nOpenHospital is a free and open-s
 ource health information management system used in hospitals across Uganda
 \, Ethiopia\, and other resource-limited regions. Built by Informatici Sen
 za Frontiere\, it manages patient records\, laboratory results\, pharmacy 
 stock\, and statistical reporting for healthcare workers and patients who 
 depend on it daily.\n\nAs a team of four undergraduate students contributi
 ng to OpenHospital for the first time\, we each tackled a separate "good f
 irst issues" in the OpenHospital ecosystem. This talk shares what componen
 ts we worked on\, and what we learned about navigating a large\, real-worl
 d codebase.\n\nComponents We Worked On:\nWe each tackled a different area 
 of the project\, with contributions spanning reporting infrastructure\, in
 terface consistency\, translation hygiene\, and data accessibility across 
 the GUI. \n\nReport Localization Structure\nOpenHospital generates clinica
 l reports (patient records\, outpatient statistics\, lab summaries) using 
 JasperReports. However\, managing the translation of these reports include
 s a lot of manual work. The work on report localization investigates wheth
 er this process can be streamlined\, which reduces the maintenance burden 
 for contributors and makes it easier to add support for new languages in t
 he future.\n\nSortable and Filterable Tables\nOpenHospital’s desktop GUI
  uses tables to display information such as exams\, patients\, lab records
 \, and inventory. However\, not all of these tables have consistent sortin
 g and filtering behavior\, which can make it harder to quickly find the ri
 ght record. The work on sortable and filterable tables focuses on applying
  standard table sorting and natural text filtering across the GUI\, starti
 ng with the Exam Browser as an initial implementation pattern. This improv
 es data accessibility for users while preserving correct row selection for
  actions like Edit\, Delete\, and Results after sorting or filtering.  \n\
 nOrphan Bundle Cleanup\nOpenHospital supports multiple languages through t
 ranslation bundles that map interface text to localization keys used throu
 ghout the system. Over time\, some translation entries became “orphaned\
 ,” meaning they were no longer connected to any active part of the appli
 cation. This component  focuses on identifying and cleaning up these unuse
 d translation keys by tracing references across Java source files\, report
 s\, and configuration files. Removing outdated entries improves maintainab
 ility\, reduces confusion for future contributors\, and helps keep the loc
 alization system organized as the project continues to grow and add langua
 ge support. \n\nConsistent Save/OK Button Pattern\nIn different OpenHospit
 al GUI dialogs\, many Save/OK button implementations handled insert and up
 date operations using different patterns even though the overall logic was
  very similar. Some dialogs duplicated insert/update code\, some handled e
 xceptions differently\, and others used different success-checking approac
 hes. The work on interface consistency involves implementing a common Inse
 rt/Edit pattern that standardizes the save flow\, error handling\, and dia
 log behavior while still preserving the separate UI events needed for inse
 rt vs update actions.\n\nWhat We Learned\nWe will share how we selected Op
 en Hospital as a project to work on\, and what it feels like to contribute
  to a production codebase for the first time - from environment setup to n
 avigating Jira\, reading unfamiliar code\, and drafting pull requests that
  follow strict contribution guidelines. We hope this talk encourages other
  students and first-time contributors to take the leap into open source wi
 thout feeling intimidated.
LOCATION:CEME 1202
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/378/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:copyleft-next BoF
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T144500
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bradley M. Kühn\nLike last year\, come to this open 
 discussion session about the [copyleft-next](https://next.copyleft.org) pr
 oject.
LOCATION:MCLD 2012
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/433/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Recoverable grants for free software maintenance
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T142500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T144500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234224Z
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Thomas Humphreys\nThe XZ Utils backdoor in March 2024
  caught a maintainer takeover that had been in progress for two years. The
  attacker had positioned himself as a trusted contributor to a compression
  library running inside billions of SSH connections. He was caught because
  a Microsoft engineer noticed a half-second slowdown on a test machine. Th
 e original maintainer of the library was a single volunteer who had public
 ly written about burnout months earlier.\n\nXZ is the visible end of a wid
 er pattern. Most of the open source software that the internet runs on is 
 maintained by people who are not paid for the work\, or whose paid work is
  supported by employers whose priorities do not include the upstream proje
 ct. Existing funding models do not fix this as grants are episodic and cor
 porate sponsorship comes with risk of capture. Each model has supported go
 od work\, none has produced sustainable funding that respects what maintai
 ners actually want to spend their time on.\n\nThis talk introduces a finan
 cial instrument designed to address this gap: an allocator commits capital
  to a vehicle that streams funding to a maintainer against milestones whil
 e a small fraction of the revenue generated by transactions that use the m
 aintained software flows back to the vehicle. Principal is recovered over 
 time while the maintainer continues to be funded after recovery completes.
 \n\nMost of the talk is about the design constraints that determine whethe
 r such an instrument produces sustainable funding or produces capture. Fou
 r principles matter most: \n(1) requiring multiple allocators per instrume
 nt so that no single funder has decisive influence over which maintainers 
 get prioritised. \n(2) separating the actors who curate the maintainer bas
 ket from the actors who operate the disbursement mechanism. \n(3) building
  mechanism diversity rather than a single canonical wrapper. \n(4) sunsett
 ing curator and allocator authority on a defined schedule so that no gover
 nance position calcifies.\n\nThe session is for maintainers and contributo
 rs who have thought about funding and found existing models inadequate. Th
 e argument is that maintainers can take structured funding without giving 
 up the autonomy that makes their work valuable\, but only if the design co
 nstraints above are treated as load-bearing rather than optional. Q&A welc
 omes pushback on whether the constraints are sufficient.
LOCATION:MCLD 2002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/411/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Accidental Ambassadors: Open Source as Diplomatic Work
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T142500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T144500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Laura Langdon\nBefore specialization split scholarshi
 p into disciplines\, philosophers were also scientists and mathematicians.
  As community manager of the UC Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Network\
 , I'm watching open source begin to undo some of that siloing.\n\nThe camp
 us OSPO meetups bring together sociologists\, historians\, computer scient
 ists\, mathematicians\, IT staff\, librarians\, and administrators. The Un
 ited Nations' Open Source Week brought together OSPOs from tech\, the auto
 motive industry\, and government\; physical infrastructure builders\; and 
 the UN's Digital Public Goods Alliance. People who would not otherwise be 
 in the same conversations are finding each other because they all touch op
 en source.\n\nThis is diplomatic work. Open source practitioners are ambas
 sadors: between maintainers and contributors\, between projects and their 
 funders\, between the open source world and the wider one increasingly dep
 endent upon it. Once we recognize the position we occupy we can step into 
 the ambassador role on purpose\, stewarding our projects\, our communities
 \, and our practice of diplomacy so that what open source has been doing a
 ccidentally\, we do deliberately.
LOCATION:MCLD 2002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/456/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Break
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T150000
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CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Break
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T150000
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DESCRIPTION:No description
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Break
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T150000
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CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Break
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T144500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T150000
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DESCRIPTION:No description
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Talk
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T154500
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UID:363@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:CEME 1202
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Designing attestations UI: The Security and Safety of OSS package 
 supply chain
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T152000
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Eriol Fox\nAfter working on a 12+ week project lookin
 g at how to express in the varied UI's of three package repositories (npm\
 , pypi and RubyGems) we can now see more clearly what developers\, across 
 skill and knowledge levels\, use in package repository pages to make a dec
 ision on the security of an OSS located on a registry. These decisions are
  critical for better understanding trust\, value\, social proof and the kn
 owledge of secure practices across developers and helps answer the questio
 n: how much do developers know about the security of their software supply
  chain?\n\nThis talk will cover: 1. The essential user research findings f
 rom the project\, 2. How user research informed the UI style guide design 
 build 3. What gaps and opportunities are here to continue design in the SB
 OM\, Attestations and securing software repositories topics.\n\nhttps://gi
 thub.com/ossf/wg-securing-software-repos/tree/main/docs/attestations-style
 -guide
LOCATION:MCLD 2002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/453/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Measuring hypervisor impact on Linux scheduling
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T154500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Roan Richmond\nThe Linux kernel is used in much of to
 day’s critical infrastructure\, often operating autonomously\, running p
 rocesses without direct human supervision. In many of the industries gaini
 ng the most benefit from Linux\, including Cloud\, Finance and Automotive\
 , it is common to see Linux used with a hypervisor. Using a hypervisor is 
 commonly thought to allow for better security\, reliability\, and safety. 
 However\, impacts are often overlooked when hypervisors are presented as t
 he only viable solution. As software complexity increases\, decisions that
  have performance implications and increase the current stack's depth shou
 ld not be taken lightly.\n\n## Hypervisor Coercion\n\nIn automotive\, ther
 e is often no choice but to use a hypervisor\; it could be mandated by har
 dware suppliers as a clause for using the hardware components safely. This
  can result in a situation where an integrator has to awkwardly stack the 
 original system on top of an externally supplied hypervisor.\n\nTo make ma
 tters worse\, the hypervisors that are forced upon automotive companies ar
 e often proprietary black-boxes\, provided only as binaries to be integrat
 ed upon.\n\n## Naive Illusions\n \nWhen migrating a bare-metal Linux-based
  system to a hypervisor\, it is a fool's game to assume that things will j
 ust work the first time and that the “light-weight” hypervisor will ha
 ve no impact on the system. Therefore\, it is important to understand the 
 impact a given hypervisor has on performance and the limitations this impa
 ct puts on the system.\n\nWithout properly understanding the effects of th
 e hypervisor on the system\, both benefits and pitfalls\, adding a hypervi
 sor into the base of the software stack results in a less predictable syst
 em. Increased complexity\, reduced performance\, unexpected resource conte
 ntion\, reduced hardware peripheral support are all real possible outcomes
  of introducing a proprietary hypervisor without proper consideration.\n\n
 ## Statistical over Blind Trust\n\nOften\, hypervisors include documentati
 on on overhead\, which can range from “light” to actual figures like 
 “adds 10% overhead to page allocations”. In general\, these are provid
 ed without evidence or means to reproduce the figures made. Relying on the
 se values is a blunder that regularly results in unforeseen issues when mo
 ving into production.\n\nMeasuring performance metrics on representative w
 orkloads is one method of building confidence and deriving overheads. Thes
 e metrics can then be used to inform architectural decisions about the Lin
 ux system running on top of the hypervisor\, such as avoiding specific phy
 sical CPUs which the hypervisor regularly pre-empts.\n\n## The Talk\n\nThi
 s presentation presents an investigation into the effects of a black-box h
 ypervisor on deadline scheduling in the Linux kernel. Using the millions o
 f gathered data points\, trends can be identified\, driving further analys
 is and resulting in actionable architectural decisions backed by data. Spe
 cifically\, this talk will show how scheduling data analysis resulted in h
 ypotheses about the hypervisor core weighting\, and how this was then tran
 sferred into limitations being placed on integrated applications.
LOCATION:CEME 1210
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/447/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Kdenlive - The Past\, Present\, and Future
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T154500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bernd Jordan\nKdenlive (short for KDE Non-linear Vide
 o Editor) is a community project which aims to deliver a free and open sou
 rce video editing software application to allow everybody to produce high 
 quality content in order to increase the democratization of the media. Thi
 s presentation will look into Kdenlive's origins\, what it is offering tod
 ay\, which enhancements and new features are planned for the future\, and 
 how we are engaging with the community to make Kdenlive better.
LOCATION:MCLD 2002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/392/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:O11y in One: Exploring ClickHouse as a Unified Telemetry Database
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T154500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Josh Lee\nOpenTelemetry is often introduced as a way 
 to send your metrics\, traces\, and logs to separate backend databases. Bu
 t in reality\, most organizations juggle at least half a dozen monitoring 
 tools in production. What we really need isn’t just a standardized way t
 o collect telemetry—it’s a unified datastore that brings all the backe
 nds together\, much like how OpenTelemetry has a unified telemetry collect
 ion.\nCould ClickHouse be that solution? In this talk\, Joshua will dive i
 nto the fundamental nature of telemetry and explore what we truly need fro
 m a unified telemetry datastore. He’ll break down the specific features 
 of ClickHouse that make it an exceptional choice for tracing and logs toda
 y—and hint at its growing potential for time-series data in the future.\
 nFrom there\, he’ll highlight the seamless integrations between ClickHou
 se and open-source tools like OpenTelemetry\, Prometheus\, Grafana\, and K
 afka\, showcasing how these technologies work together to enhance observab
 ility pipelines. Finally\, we’ll take a closer look at cutting-edge\, op
 en-source observability platforms built on ClickHouse\, including CoRoot\,
  QRYN\, and SigNoz.\nWhether you’re building a complete observability pl
 atform or exploring how to simplify your own observability strategy\, this
  session will equip you with insights into leveraging ClickHouse as a core
  part of your telemetry infrastructure. Join us to learn how to move beyon
 d fragmented tools and unlock the power of unified observability.
LOCATION:MCLD 3038
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/403/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Open Source Survival in the age of AI
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T154500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
UID:282@2026.fossy.ca
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Joshua D. Drake (JD)\nOpen Source software has thrive
 d on a simple\, revolutionary premise: code is a valuable\, scarce resourc
 e that is best built\, maintained\, and shared collaboratively. However\, 
 the rise of AI is challenging this foundation. When AI can clone\, rewrite
 \, or reverse-engineer complex codebases in a matter of days—often bypas
 sing traditional licensing and attribution—the rules of open source are 
 being rewritten.  \n\nThis presentation explores the crisis facing open so
 urce communities and maintainers in the AI era. As AI agents increasingly 
 consume OSS to train models and generate code\, the traditional incentives
  for open source contribution are shifting. We will examine the core threa
 ts to the ecosystem—ranging from "shadow AI" to the erosion of tradition
 al software licenses—while offering a pragmatic blueprint for how open s
 ource can adapt and survive.\n\n# Key themes to be covered include:\n\n* T
 he Death of Traditional Licensing? \n\n* The Contribution Crisis: Managing
  the influx of AI-generated pull requests and low-quality code "slop" with
 out burning out human maintainers.\n\n* Redefining Value: Shifting the foc
 us of open source from the raw code itself to the unique value of human-cu
 rated communities\, domain expertise\, and rigorous security validation.\n
 \n* The Rise of Open Source AI: How open models and tools are counterbalan
 cing proprietary AI monopolies\, and how developers can leverage them stra
 tegically.\n\nAttendees will leave this session with a clear understanding
  of the evolving legal\, ethical\, and technical landscape of open source.
  By adopting new strategies for governance\, community building\, and lice
 nsing\, open source can ensure that the movement remains the bedrock of so
 ftware innovation in an AI-dominated world.
LOCATION:MCLD 2002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/409/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:KCFI Comes to GCC: Code-Reuse Defenses for the Linux Kernel
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T154500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
UID:316@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Kees Cook\nKernel Control Flow Integrity (KCFI) harde
 ns the Linux kernel against function pointer hijacking by validating each 
 indirect call against its expected function-type signature. This protectio
 n has\, until recently\, only existed in Clang. This talk is the story of 
 bringing it to GCC: giving myself a crash course in GCC's internals\, expe
 rimenting with implementation choices across front\, middle\, and backend 
 code\, adding coverage and regression tests as I hit bugs\, and working th
 rough reviewer feedback across a dozen revisions. Attendees will leave wit
 h a picture of what it takes to work on a security feature in GCC\, how KC
 FI actually works\, and where the implementation stands today.
LOCATION:CEME 1212
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/390/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Chromebooks are the new Thinkpads\; turning ewaste into a daily dr
 iver
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T154500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
UID:320@2026.fossy.ca
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Owen Zimmerman\nYou will learn how to replace ChromeO
 S with any Linux distribution of your choosing\, the different options for
  keeping or upgrading the firmware\, and then a demo of the SuzyQ Board fu
 nctionality and use cases.\nOn top of the technical side\, I will discuss 
 how I have personally reduced Chromebook e-waste at various orgs with thes
 e tools\; helping kickstart you and your communities in implementing the s
 ame strategies.
LOCATION:MCLD 3014
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/379/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:The How and Why of Bootstrappable Builds
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T154500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
UID:393@2026.fossy.ca
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Timothy Sample\nWe expect to have the freedom to stud
 y how a program works.  To that end\, we expect that a program’s source 
 code be available.  However\, that source code only becomes a “program
 ” with the help of another program (a compiler or interpreter).  Many of
  the details of how a program works live in this second program\; perhaps 
 our study warrants a look at its source code\, too.  Now we have fallen in
 to a loop: we can keep wondering about the source code to the program that
  made the program that made the program….  For most modern software\, th
 e exact chain of programs making programs is lost to history.  Consider a 
 modern copy of GCC distributed by Debian – is it possible to obtain the 
 source code to every C compiler used to compile it and all its ancestors? 
  Many of them will be earlier versions of GCC distributed by earlier versi
 ons of Debian\, but eventually we will reach a time before Debian and even
  a time before GCC.  Which compilers were used then\, and is the source co
 de available?\n\nKen Thompson warned about the security implications of th
 is in his Turing Award lecture “Reflections on Trusting Trust”.  In th
 at lecture he explains how a backdoor can persist in a self-hosting compil
 er despite there being no indication of it in the source code.  The corres
 pondence between the source code and the program is not complete\, and the
  details of how a program works can be obscured.  To avoid this\, we need 
 to make sure that we can create the programs that make programs without re
 lying on the entire history of compilers back to the dawn of computing!  T
 his is the aim of the Bootstrappable Builds project.\n\nGNU Guix is a pack
 age manager that provides thousands of packages for GNU/Linux systems.  Ov
 er the past 10 years\, the Guix community has been working to make these p
 ackages bootstrappable.  For instance\, the chain of C compilers working b
 ack from modern GCC is known precisely: GCC 4\, GCC 2\, TCC\, MesCC\, and 
 M2-Planet.  That last one is written in assembly which is assembled by a c
 hain of assemblers until we hit a small (around 256 bytes) program that ca
 n be understood even without its source code.  There is no need to hope we
  keep finding archival tapes of old versions of Unix: the entire chain is 
 right there!\n\nAs part of my ongoing work with Guix\, I’ve built Germ: 
 an implementation of the Scheme programming language in assembly.  Scheme 
 is among the best languages for building powerful abstractions on top of a
  small set of primitives\, and Germ uses this property to be the seed from
  which capable build tools can grow.  In this talk I will contextualize Ge
 rm within the history and future of bootstrappable builds in Guix.  We wil
 l look at how it can be used to further shorten the chain of programs buil
 ding programs and thereby remove needless obscurity from our quest to unde
 rstand how a program works.
LOCATION:CEME 1212
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/383/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:ActivityPub API - Microblogging and Beyond
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T154500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
UID:391@2026.fossy.ca
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Django Doucet\nMy talk will explore the challenges of
  building a general-purpose client using ActivityPub's Client API.\n\nBy d
 eveloping a general-purpose client app\, participating in the specificatio
 n work\, and addressing its shortcomings\, I will demonstrate what can be 
 achieved\, proposed\, and empower platform developers to innovate new fede
 rated services.
LOCATION:MCLD 2018
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/460/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Talk
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T154500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
UID:413@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:MCLD 2012
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Enterprises Play Dirty
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T154500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
UID:288@2026.fossy.ca
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Peter Farkas\nFrom Red Hat to MongoDB\, major vendors
  are increasingly adopting tactics designed to protect market power\, limi
 t competition\, and restrict user freedom. This talk examines the strategi
 es behind these moves and explores how they affect the broader open source
  ecosystem and the communities that rely on it.\nWe will discuss recent ex
 amples\, the motivations driving these decisions\, and the long-term risks
  posed to innovation\, collaboration\, and software freedom. Attendees wil
 l leave with a clearer understanding of the dynamics at play - and what th
 e open source community can do to remain resilient.
LOCATION:MCLD 2002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/412/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Blogging on the social web
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T154500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
UID:311@2026.fossy.ca
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Matt Baer\nLong-form publishing via ActivityPub has c
 ome a long way in the eight years since WriteFreely joined the fediverse. 
 In this talk\, I'll give a broad overview of what that looks like today in
  the wider ecosystem\, and dig into how you can create a publication on th
 e social web. I'll also show how other platforms on the network can be use
 d to share your work and engage with a wider audience on the network. Last
 ly\,\nI'll give a sneak peek at an experiment we've been hacking on at Wri
 te.as to show all that can be possible with long-form content on the open 
 social web.
LOCATION:CEME 1202
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/475/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Talk
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T154500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
UID:377@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:MCLD 3002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Beyond Chat: Delivering mini "apps" with great UI
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T154500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
UID:334@2026.fossy.ca
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Stephen Paul Weber\nXMPP is well-known as a protocol 
 powering chat\, but it can do much more than that. There are several ways 
 to deliver interactive experiences other than simple "chat bots". Resultin
 g in mini "apps" that get native UI\, built-in user authentication\, and b
 uilt-in ways to communicate this can greatly simplify building some kinds 
 of useful software\, even stuff that you wouldn't normally think of as "ch
 at adjacent" at all.\n\nWe will look at some things that have already been
  built\, and how you can go about building your own stuff too.
LOCATION:MCLD 3038
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/369/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:From Corporate to Co-op: Contributing to Chromium at Igalia vs Goo
 gle
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T154500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
UID:372@2026.fossy.ca
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sharon Yang\nIgalia is a small\, cooperative consulti
 ng firm specializing in open source. Google is one of the world's largest 
 publicly traded corporations. Both have teams working on Chromium\, a mass
 ive open source\nproject. As a new Igalian and former Googler\, Sharon giv
 es an insider's take on contributing to Chromium at both organizations.
LOCATION:MCLD 2012
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/472/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Open AI\, Human Trust: How Free Software Shapes the Way People Exp
 erience Modern AI
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T154500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
UID:340@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Samira\nArtificial Intelligence (AI) is now part of e
 veryday life\, from recommendation systems and chatbots to healthcare tool
 s and search engines. However\, many people Artificial Intelligence is inc
 reasingly shaping how people search for information\, write\, learn\, work
 \, make decisions\, and interact with digital systems. Yet for many end us
 ers\, AI can still feel like a mysterious black box. This talk explains ho
 w Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) helps make modern AI more understan
 dable\, trustworthy\, and usable from a human-centered perspective.\nRathe
 r than focusing on advanced technical details\, this session looks at AI t
 hrough the lens of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI): How do people experie
 nce AI systems? What makes an AI tool feel transparent\, reliable\, fair\,
  or confusing? Why does openness matter when users are asked to trust syst
 ems that influence everyday decisions?\n\nWe will introduce how open-sourc
 e tools\, frameworks\, models\, datasets\, and communities support the AI 
 technologies people encounter every day\, including chatbots\, recommendat
 ion systems\, search tools\, writing assistants\, and educational applicat
 ions. We will also discuss how FOSS can improve transparency\, accessibili
 ty\, accountability\, and user agency by allowing communities to inspect\,
  adapt\, evaluate\, and improve AI systems.\n\nAttendees will leave with a
  clearer understanding of how open-source software powers modern AI and wh
 y human-centered design\, trust\, and openness are essential for building 
 AI systems that serve people well.
LOCATION:MCLD 3002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/436/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Snikket: Behind the scenes of our on-demand XMPP server hosting
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T154500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
UID:367@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Matthew Wild\nSnikket is a project with a vision: eve
 ry family and social group should have their own private communication spa
 ce. We encourage self-hosting Snikket\, but what about people who lack the
  skills or time to self-host?\n\nWe launched Snikket Hosting a few years a
 go\, allowing anyone to sign up and launch their own Snikket instance with
  just a couple of clicks and no technical expertise. Each Snikket instance
  has an XMPP server (Prosody) at its heart. Previous XMPP hosting initiati
 ves focused on scaling up a single XMPP server instance to support many cu
 stomer domains\, while our platform launches a self-contained Snikket inst
 ance for each customer using open-source software only.\n\nThis will be a 
 mildly technical talk\, which discusses our approach to hosting XMPP at sc
 ale\, challenges faced\, as well as the technologies and architecture deci
 sions we chose\, and a look at our roadmap for the future.
LOCATION:MCLD 3038
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/373/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Talk
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T154500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
UID:350@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:MCLD 2012
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:A GNU poke-based\, machine-readable file-format specification for 
 HDF5
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T154500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
UID:278@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gerd Heber\nHDF5 is a foundational file format for sc
 ientific and engineering data\, but much of its practical meaning lives at
  the boundary between prose specifications\, library implementations\, and
  real binary files on disk. This talk presents SHAPE5 (Specification for H
 DF5 Analysis\, Parsing\, and Encoding)\, an effort to describe HDF5's on-d
 isk structures as executable\, machine-readable GNU poke pickles.\n\nGNU p
 oke is a programmable editor for binary data that maps raw bytes directly 
 into type structures. SHAPE5 applies this model to HDF5 metadata: superblo
 cks\, object headers\, object header messages\, B-trees\, chunk indexes\, 
 checksums\, and related primitives. The result is not another HDF5 decoder
  or encoder\, but a complementary specification artifact—one that can be
  loaded\, inspected\, tested\, and extended interactively.\n\nThe talk wil
 l demonstrate how these pickles expose HDF5 internals from the poke REPL\,
  how offsets and versioned structures are handled\, and how tools built on
  top of SHAPE5—`h5explain`\, `h5check`\, and `h5patch`—support debuggi
 ng\, validation\, data recovery\, and format exploration. We will also dis
 cuss what becomes clearer when a binary format specification is executable
 : mistakes in the documentation\, ambiguities in prose\, undocumented impl
 ementation behavior\, and opportunities for conformance testing.\n\nA mach
 ine-readable specification is essential for maintaining coherence across t
 he half-dozen independent HDF5 implementations in active use. It also lowe
 rs the barrier to writing new implementations and enables more targeted fu
 zzing tools to harden existing ones.\n\nAttendees will leave with a practi
 cal understanding of how GNU poke can model complex binary formats\, why m
 achine-readable specifications matter for long-lived scientific data\, and
  how free software communities can collaborate around format transparency\
 , tooling\, and preservation.
LOCATION:MCLD 2018
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/421/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Lowering Barriers in Open Source: AI-Supported Onboarding with Com
 mUnityBuddy
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T152500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T154500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
UID:417@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Pedro Oliveira\nOpen source communities depend on new
  contributors\, but onboarding remains one of the biggest barriers to part
 icipation. Newcomers often struggle to find where to start\, understand pr
 oject codebases\, navigate documentation\, and interact with the community
 . These challenges frequently lead to frustration and early drop-off. This
  talk presents CommUnityBuddy\, an AI-powered assistant to support newcome
 r onboarding in open source scientific software projects. The system uses 
 large language models with project specific data\, such as documentation\,
  issues\, pull requests\, and chat logs\, to provide contextual real-time 
 guidance.\n\nThe goal is not to replace human mentorship\, but to scale it
 . By answering repetitive questions\, and guiding contributors through com
 mon workflows\, the assistant helps reduce maintainer workload while givin
 g newcomers faster and more accessible support. The talk will cover key on
 boarding challenges\, how AI can be used to support newcomers\, the design
  of a retrieval-augmented system\, and early evaluation insights from stud
 ies. \n\nThis work shows how *AI can improve newcomers onboarding* without
  disrupting community practices\, offering a path toward more inclusive an
 d sustainable open source participation.
LOCATION:MCLD 2002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/452/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Coffee/tea break
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T154500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T163000
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
UID:385@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Coffee\, tea\, and snack break
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Coffee/tea break
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T154500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T163000
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
UID:238@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Coffee\, tea\, and snack break
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Coffee/tea break
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T154500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T163000
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
UID:237@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Coffee\, tea\, and snack break
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Coffee/tea break
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T154500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T163000
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
UID:235@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Coffee\, tea\, and snack break
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:A year into Box Theory: what we've learned
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T171500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
UID:321@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Denver Gingerich\nBox Theory was first introduced one
  year ago\, at this very conference.  Since then\, it has toured around ot
 her conferences\, with some helpful insights and feedback.  Learn about wh
 ere Box Theory is at now\, and what's next for this helpful software (and 
 hardware!) right-to-repair framework.
LOCATION:MCLD 3014
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/446/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:An Open Source Stack - Running a company using FOSS
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T171500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
UID:373@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Danielle Mayabb\nIgalia is an open-source consulting 
 firm specializing in areas such as web standards\, web engines and accessi
 bility. In this talk\, Danielle Mayabb\, from Igalia's tools team\, will t
 alk about how Igalia uses FOSS to power the company. She will cover the te
 chnologies Igalia uses\, how using an open stack compares to a corporate s
 tack\, and the pros and cons of each.
LOCATION:MCLD 2012
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/471/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Talk
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T171500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
UID:378@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:MCLD 3002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:If You Meet the Fediverse on the Road...
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T171500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
UID:313@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ben Pate\nGetting started on the Fediverse is harder 
 than you think. Let's take a "people first" view at our network from the o
 utside in\, and see how we can be a more welcoming community.
LOCATION:CEME 1202
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/474/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:"Beautiful XMPP Testing" revisited -- How to Overcome the Mind-Bod
 y Duality by Staring at XML
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T171500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
UID:335@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Phillip Davis\nMental models become more valuable the
  harder they are to acquire. This is especially true in relatively low-lev
 el work with protocols like XMPP\, where the convenience of abstracting ov
 er the wire format is too efficient pass up. But as developers\, we should
  also have delightful tools for exploring the raw XML that actually underl
 ies all of this\, and these tools should be useful in our daily work. Join
  me on my misguided quest through automated testing generators\, context-f
 ree grammars\, and somehow embedding the .NET runtime in Ruby. Maybe at th
 e end\, we'll have the tool we all deserve\, but no promises.
LOCATION:MCLD 3038
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/371/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:eBPF Beyond Networking: Creative Uses of eBPF to Extend the Kernel
  Functionality
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T171500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
UID:312@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rafael Roquetto\neBPF is often associated with networ
 king\, security\, and performance analysis. Those are still some of its mo
 st visible uses\, but modern eBPF gives us enough hooks to build tools tha
 t understand application behavior across several layers of the system.\nTh
 is talk uses OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) as a case study\, bu
 t the focus is eBPF rather than OpenTelemetry. We will look at how OBI com
 bines different eBPF program types to connect things that normally live in
  separate worlds: processes\, sockets\, syscalls\, protocol payloads\, req
 uest metadata\, and distributed trace context.\nThe talk will cover how eB
 PF can be used to discover application traffic\, track socket lifecycles\,
  detect protocols\, associate network activity with processes\, augment ap
 plication standard output and correlate requests across services. We will 
 also look at one of the stranger tricks in OBI: propagating context by int
 ercepting traffic and injecting trace information without modifying applic
 ation code.\nThe goal is to show how eBPF can be used as a practical instr
 umentation toolkit\, where the interesting part is not one hook or one pro
 gram type\, but how several of them can be combined to make sense of real 
 applications.
LOCATION:CEME 1210
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/396/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Welley: Expanding the Fediverse with Groups\, Channels\, and a New
  DID Approach
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T171500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
UID:301@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dmitry Skavish\nThe Fediverse has come a long way\, b
 ut most platforms still center around a pretty narrow set of interaction p
 atterns. Welley is an attempt to push that a bit further while staying ful
 ly compatible with\nMastodon\, Lemmy\, and other ActivityPub software.\n\n
 In this talk\, I will walk through how Welley approaches things like group
 s and channels as first-class actors instead of workarounds on top of user
  accounts. The goal is to make communities feel more\nnatural in the Fediv
 erse without breaking compatibility with what already exists.\n\nI will al
 so introduce a new DID method being developed alongside Welley. This is an
  early attempt to rethink identity in the Fediverse\, focusing on portabil
 ity and long-term interoperability\, while still\nfitting into the current
  ecosystem.\n\nKey Topics:\n\n- Building ActivityPub software that plays n
 icely with Mastodon\,\nLemmy\, and others\n- Groups and channels as real a
 ctors\, not hacks\n- Expanding the social graph beyond individuals\n- A ne
 w DID method for federated identity
LOCATION:MCLD 2018
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/468/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Free and Open Source COBOL - Opening FOSS to Finance and Admin (th
 e old DP shops)
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T171500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
UID:295@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Marty Heyman\nCOBOL is considered a dead language. Th
 e current ISO-IEC Cobol Language Standard was published at the very end of
  2023 and describes a very "modern" language. But the vast majority of the
  COBOL code behind the Finance and Administrative applications in the back
  room was written by the mid-1980s and the bigger enhancements were done b
 y Y2K. Why COBOL on Linux/BSD/WSL/LinuxOne®\n\nWell\, there are hundreds 
 of billions\, yes BILLIONS\, of lines of cobol code wout there. Mostly on 
 IBM mainframes. Some on Windows (Microfocus® now Rocket Software). And so
 me on Linux already (GnuCOBOL\, COBOL to C to gcc to native\, works well).
  The owneers of some of that COBOL code want to migrate those apps to Open
  Systems. The Microfocus users want an alternative too. So\, after experie
 ce with GnuCOBOL\, COBOLworx®\, a branded unit of Symas® Corp\, built a 
 COBOL compiler (front-end) for the Gnu Compiler Collectiion\, gcobol\, and
  contributed it in 2025 (GCC 15) and has enhanced it in the recent GCC 16.
 \n\nThe history of COBOL starts from Hollerith\, IBM and punched cards. It
  revolutionized the back office! Maybe the biggest productivity activity e
 very. I'd like to share some of what that felt like\, what it meant\, and 
 what it means today
LOCATION:CEME 1212
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/385/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Beyond Adoption: What Actually Happens After You Add a Code of Con
 duct?
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Shurui Zhou\n## Beyond Adoption: What Actually Happen
 s After You Add a Code of Conduct?\n\nCodes of Conduct (CoCs) have become 
 a common practice in open source communities—often recommended as a way 
 to create welcoming\, inclusive environments. But what happens *after* ado
 ption? Do CoCs actually change how communities grow\, evolve\, and retain 
 contributors?\n\nIn this talk\, we present findings from a large-scale emp
 irical study of over 150\,000 open source repositories and their Code of C
 onduct histories. We move beyond the typical “should we adopt a CoC?” 
 debate and instead focus on what practitioners often struggle with in prac
 tice: **how CoCs are used\, maintained\, and whether they make a measurabl
 e difference**.\n\n### Key insights\n\n- **Adoption is common\, maintenanc
 e is rare.**  \n  Most projects adopt a CoC once and rarely revisit it. On
 ly a small subset treats it as a living document that evolves with the com
 munity.\n\n- **CoCs act as a signal for newcomers.**  \n  Projects with a 
 CoC tend to attract more new contributors—both in the short and long ter
 m—suggesting that CoCs serve as an onboarding signal of inclusivity.\n\n
 - **Retention is a different challenge.**  \n  While adoption can increase
  newcomer inflow\, it may also lead to short-term disengagement among exis
 ting contributors\, with little long-term impact on retention.\n\nWe also 
 unpack *how* CoCs evolve when they do change—ranging from simple wording
  updates to deeper changes in enforcement\, scope\, and governance—and w
 hat these patterns reveal about community priorities.\n\nThis talk is desi
 gned for maintainers\, contributors\, and open source leaders who want to 
 move beyond checkbox adoption and think more strategically about governanc
 e. In addition to practical takeaways on when to revisit your CoC and how 
 to align it with community practices\, the session aims to **spark discuss
 ion\, gather feedback from practitioners\, and foster collaboration** arou
 nd improving governance in open source communities.
LOCATION:MCLD 2002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/406/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Talk
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T171500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
UID:414@2026.fossy.ca
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DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:MCLD 2012
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Plan to fork (So you don't have to fork)
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rich Bowen\nIf your product or service relies on an o
 pen source project\, ensuring the sustainability of that project is just g
 ood business sense. Forking should be a last resort — considered only af
 ter all other options have been exhausted.\n\nBut here's the thing: writin
 g a detailed plan to fork has two surprising benefits. First\, it ensures 
 that should the worst happen\, you've already considered how you'll deal w
 ith it. But perhaps more importantly\, the exercise of planning a fork for
 ces you to confront exactly what makes your upstream project healthy — o
 r fragile. It makes you a better upstream participant.\n\nIn this talk\, w
 e'll walk through what a fork plan looks like\, what it reveals about proj
 ect health\, and how the act of planning for the worst can help you preven
 t it. We'll draw on real-world examples — some that forked and thrived\,
  some that forked and struggled\, and some that never had to fork because 
 they invested upstream in time.
LOCATION:MCLD 2002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/407/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:What's a Data Lake and What Does It Mean For My Open Source Stack?
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T163000
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DTSTAMP:20260718T234225Z
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Robert Hodges\nData lakes on open table formats like 
 Iceberg are a popular way to manage large datasets for analytics\, data sc
 ience\, and AI. This talk explains how data lakes work and how to adapt op
 en source analytic stacks to use them. First\, we'll tour projects like Ar
 row\, Iceberg\, and Unity Catalog that make data lakes possible. Next\, we
 'll see how analytic engines like DuckDB\, ClickHouse\, and Spark are adap
 ting. Finally\, we'll survey a few projects that enable applications writt
 en in Python\, Golang\, or Rust to deliver fast queries. You'll have to bu
 ild the app yourself\, but this talk will show you a path to use data lake
 s and open source successfully.
LOCATION:MCLD 3038
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/402/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:ColdFront and Onboarding Automation Development at UBC ARC
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T171500
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jacob Boschee\nA key part of providing research compu
 ting services is the ability to manage access for groups of researchers ut
 ilizing high performance computing resources. One of the challenges that t
 he University of British Columbia Advanced Research Computing team faced w
 hen expanding our user-base was the need to provide an easy to utilize pla
 tform for researchers to request and manage their resource allocations. In
  an effort to modernize our offerings the UBC ARC team looked to open-sour
 ce options to suit our needs.\n\nColdFront is an open-source allocation ma
 nagement platform developed by the University at Buffalo Center for Comput
 ational Research. As part of implementing this software we extended ColdFr
 ont’s capabilities to provide automated system actions by utilizing Even
 t-Driven Ansible (EDA). Our team developed a number of plugins to provide 
 this functionality and contribute back to the project at large.\n\nIn this
  talk we will provide details around the development of the onboarding sys
 tem in use by UBC ARC and how our contributions to ColdFront can help the 
 wider field of research computing service providers.
LOCATION:MCLD 2018
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/422/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Picolibc - a C library for embedded systems
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Keith Packard\nPicolibc is a C library designed for e
 mbedded environments. Providing\na complete C17 library interface along wi
 th much of the POSIX 2008\nadditions\, Picolibc offers standards conforman
 ce\, broad architecture\nsupport and integrated testing performed under em
 ulation on the target\narchitectures.\n\nThis talk will start by providing
  an overview of Picolibc\, including\nAPI support\, standards conformance 
 and memory usage. Then\, a\ndescription of the testing infrastructure\, in
 cluding the bare-metal\ntest frameworks\, emulator bugs fixed and guidance
  on supporting new\ntargets will be provided. Next\, some specific example
 s of integrating\nPicolibc into various embedded RTOSes\, including FreeRT
 OS\, Zephyr and\nRIOT will be presented. The talk will finish with the cur
 rent status\nof Picolibc along with future plans.
LOCATION:CEME 1212
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/384/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:KDE Plasma on the "Immutable" Desktop\, and an examination of the 
 Kalpa Desktop
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Shawn W Dunn\nThis talk will provide an informative "
 Tour" of the various projects providing the Plasma Desktop on what are col
 loquially called "Immutable Desktops"\n\nThe underlying technologies may d
 iffer\, but in general are providing some version of a read-only system ba
 se\, and atomic updating\n\nWe will be looking at a very high level overvi
 ew of a few projects\, including\, but not limited to:\n\n- Fedora Kinoite
 \n- KDE Linux\n- Aurora\n- Kalpa Dekstop\n\nKalpa Desktop delivers KDE Pla
 sma\, on top of an atomic and transactional system\n\nBased on openSUSE Tu
 mbleweed and MicroOS we leverage btrfs snapshots\, with a read-only system
  base to deliver a transactional and atomic upgrade mechanism that helps w
 ith long term stability\, and allows for easy system rollback.\n\nWhile ma
 ny "immutable" systems can make it difficult to modify the system base (su
 ch as installing distribution packages\, when needed) our transactional sy
 stem can allow for much of the flexibility of a traditional read-write lin
 ux desktop\, while also providing the benefits of a read-only system.\n\nT
 his talk will hit some of the highlights of the Kalpa Desktop\, and how we
 're using the Plasma Desktop to provide a unified desktop experience
LOCATION:MCLD 2002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/391/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Talk
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T171500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234226Z
UID:351@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:MCLD 2012
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Too Many Eyeballs? Free Software Security in the LLM Era
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T171500
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sean O'Brien\nFree software has always carried a powe
 rful security promise: when source code is available for public review\, m
 ore people can inspect it\, improve it\, and help find vulnerabilities bef
 ore they cause harm. That promise still matters. But over the past year\, 
 large language models (LLMs) and so-called "generative AI" have changed th
 e conditions under which free software projects\, maintainers\, bug bounty
  programs\, and hosts of software repositories and essential communication
  infrastructure operate.\n\nThis talk examines how LLM-powered software ha
 s intensified long-standing challenges in free software cybersecurity. Mai
 ntainers and security teams now face a flood of automated vulnerability re
 ports that are duplicative\, low quality\, "hallucinated\," or only superf
 icially understood by the pentesters submitting them. For bug bounty progr
 ams\, this creates a costly triage burden. Reports that once represented c
 areful human review are increasingly mixed with LLM-generated "AI slop\," 
 making it harder to identify real risk\, reward meaningful research\, and 
 preserve trust between free software projects and ethical hackers.\n\nAt t
 he same time\, hype around LLM-powered security scanners and proprietary e
 xploit repositories has created new pressure on free software communities.
  Proprietary products such as Claude Mythos and OpenAI Daybreak promise fa
 ster vulnerability discovery and automated exploit generation. For maintai
 ners\, these tools often mean more attacks\, more disclosures\, more autom
 ated probing by unknown third parties\, more speculative findings\, more d
 uplicated reports\, and the possibility that exploit knowledge derived fro
 m public code is being stockpiled in private collections that can produce 
 zero day vulnerabilities affecting their projects at any moment.\n\nSeriou
 s vulnerabilities in essential free software are being published with alar
 ming regularity\, often without adequate preparation or patching timelines
 . This includes privilege escalation and root access exploits that target 
 millions of systems. The problem is not simply code quality or technical d
 ebt. Free software infrastructure itself is under strain. Source code repo
 sitories\, package mirrors\, issue trackers\, and CI/CD systems are being 
 hit by constant scanning\, scraping\, automated dependency analysis\, and 
 opportunistic attacks. These pressures increase bandwidth costs\, slow sof
 tware sharing and patching\, and expand the attack surface for software su
 pply chain compromise.\n\nThe talk will connect these issues to broader ne
 twork abuse. Botnets such as Aisuru and waves of DDoS attacks are making a
 ccess to free software more fragile and expensive. Hosting code\, document
 ation\, packages\, and community services now carries rising costs in labo
 r\, bandwidth\, energy\, and mitigation.\n\nDrawing on popular examples li
 ke the Linux kernel and curl\, personal instances of DDoSing and attacks f
 rom botnets\, professional experience running bug bounty programs\, issues
  with so-called "cloud" hosted free software such as Canvas\, and the day-
 to-day operations required to host major projects such as GNU at the Free 
 Software Foundation (FSF)\, this session argues that we need a frank conve
 rsation about free software against the backdrop of LLM tooling.\n\nThe go
 al is not to retreat from software freedom. We must preserve source availa
 bility\, public review\, and community-based cybersecurity while asking wh
 at must change when many new "eyeballs" are automated\, careless\, inaccur
 ate\, or hostile.
LOCATION:MCLD 3002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/438/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Talk
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UID:368@2026.fossy.ca
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DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:MCLD 3038
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Your Open-Source Project Needs a Security Statement\, and here’s
  why!
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T171500
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Luc Letarte\nIn a rapidly evolving technology landsca
 pe\, earning the trust of software adopters has become increasingly challe
 nging. Institutional buyers\, funders\, and regulators now routinely requi
 re security and risk assessments before approving the use or deployment of
  software. While large technology vendors often have the resources and pro
 cesses to meet these expectations\, many open-source projects struggle to 
 present clear\, structured security information. As a result\, otherwise s
 trong projects may be overlooked when organizations evaluate tools for ado
 ption or investment.\nThis presentation highlights the critical role of a 
 well-crafted security statement for open-source projects. It outlines what
  a security statement should include\, why it matters in review processes\
 , and how maintainers can communicate effectively with security and risk p
 rofessionals. Attendees will leave with practical guidance for improving t
 he visibility\, credibility\, and adoption readiness of their open-source 
 projects.
LOCATION:CEME 1202
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/442/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Mopping Up the Slop: How bad is it\, and what can we do?
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T171500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234226Z
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Kaylea Champion\nThe commercialization of generat
 ive AI has introduced new challenges to the ways we organize and run our c
 ommunities\, including a rise in automated contributions\, synthetic engag
 ement\, and automated attacks. AI slop -- especially "plausible" slop\, th
 at is\, contributions and bug reports that seem sincere and well-founded b
 ut are ultimately fabricated and misleading -- are a substantial source of
  frustration for maintainers. How widespread is AI slop in open source? Ho
 w can we detect it and respond? In this talk\, I offer an update on my pro
 ject investigating the problem\, and the multiple follow-up efforts and ne
 w projects this problem is inspiring.
LOCATION:MCLD 2002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/454/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Break
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T173000
DTSTAMP:20260718T234226Z
UID:256@2026.fossy.ca
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DESCRIPTION:No description
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Break
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T171500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T173000
DTSTAMP:20260718T234226Z
UID:257@2026.fossy.ca
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DESCRIPTION:No description
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Opening Remarks
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T171500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260809T183000
DTSTAMP:20260718T234226Z
UID:228@2026.fossy.ca
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DESCRIPTION:Closing Remarks
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Break
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T171500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T173000
DTSTAMP:20260718T234226Z
UID:258@2026.fossy.ca
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DESCRIPTION:No description
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Take care of the bits and the gigabytes take care of themselves
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T173000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T181500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234226Z
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Kyle Davis\nIn-memory databases are fundamentally dif
 ferent. The unification of operating memory and storage means that you hav
 e to consider what\, and how\, data is stored to achieve performance\, eff
 iciency\, and scalability. And\, critically\, small differences in how bot
 h the underlying database system and you\, as the user\, manage this data 
 adds up at scale to impact efficiency. This talk explains the differences 
 of in-memory databases\, explores the internal changes to data representat
 ion that leads to higher efficiency\, and steps you can take to make your 
 usage of these systems more efficient and lead to a lower total cost of ow
 nership.
LOCATION:MCLD 3038
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/401/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Open Source Community Development: Stickers are Good\, People Stic
 king Around is Even Better
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T173000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T181500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234226Z
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Stacey Haysler\nDeveloping software is important—if
  there’s no software\, there’s no software community. Both components 
 need attention and support to keep the project vital and moving in a posit
 ive direction. Software development is a well-understood process with many
  active participants. Community development\, well . . . we have made prog
 ress in recent years\, but there’s a whole lot more to do beyond establi
 shing Diversity Committees and running scholarship programs. \n\nSo\, let
 ’s talk about developing Open Source communities. How do we interest cur
 rent community members in becoming actively involved? How do we bring in n
 ew people\, and do our best to make them feel welcome? Once they are here\
 , how do we make it easy for them to become involved and stay involved? \n
 \nHow do we create a structure that allows community members\, regardless 
 of longevity or experience\, find a role to fill\, or a new role to move t
 o when it’s time for something new? Who keeps track of the changing need
 s of the community and corresponding changes in structure\, and figures ou
 t how to manage them?\n\nThere are so many questions\, and as many answers
  as there are people. I’ll share my perspective and experience in commun
 ity development\, both in the PostgreSQL and Django communities\, as well 
 as in the corporate world\, and offer some ideas and possible approaches
 —and gather ideas from everyone present as well. We may not solve everyt
 hing in one session\, but we can make progress!
LOCATION:MCLD 2002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/405/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Rethinking One Open Source: How Open Source and Open Source for So
 cial Good Differ
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T173000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T181500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234226Z
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Mariam Guizani\nOpen source software is often viewed 
 as a uniform ecosystem\, but this overlooks important differences in proje
 ct missions. We examine how conventional OSS and OSS4SG diverge in meaning
 ful ways\, challenging a "one-size-fits-all" perspective. We position OSS
 4SG within the broader landscape of UN SDG\, aligned digital public goods\
 , emphasizing societal impact as a primary project mission. Using large-sc
 ale empirical studies of 375 projects\, 92\,721 contributors\, and 3.5 mil
 lion commits\, we analyze newcomer-to-core transitions. Our results show t
 hat OSS4SG projects retain contributors at 2.2× higher rates\, exhibit 50
 % higher weekly transition rates\, and are associated with a 19.6% higher 
 probability of achieving core status. We further find that early broad pro
 ject exploration is the strongest predictor of core achievement\, and that
  contributors who follow a “late spike” pattern reach core fastest\, i
 n 21 weeks\, compared to 51–60 weeks for early-spike contributors. Unlik
 e conventional OSS\, which concentrates on one dominant pathway\, OSS4SG s
 upports multiple viable pathways to core contribution.
LOCATION:MCLD 2018
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/423/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Panel: 30 years of KDE
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T173000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T181500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234226Z
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Neal Gompa\nThis year is the 30th anniversary of KDE!
  Come listen to people old and new to the community talk about KDE.\n\nWe'
 ll discuss:\n\n* The history of KDE and the impact it had on Free Software
  desktop computing\n* What KDE is doing now\n* How we're driving the futur
 e of Free Software desktop computing across our relevant spaces\n\nThis is
  an interactive session where the audience has the opportunity to engage a
 nd ask questions.
LOCATION:MCLD 2002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/380/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:The Tale of the GCC Runtime Library Exception
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T173000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T181500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234226Z
UID:296@2026.fossy.ca
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bradley M. Kühn\nThe GCC Runtime Library Exception (
 RTLE) was created for GCC and related toolchain projects to move to GPLv3.
   Additionally\, the RTLE solved a standing technical limitation regarding
  worry of Intermediate Representations (IRs) from GCC sneakily allowing pr
 oprietary compiler optimizations.\n\nThe solution is complex\, but it work
 s to solve the problem on all fronts.  The people on this panel were all i
 nvolved with the creation of the RTLE and will discuss its history and hel
 p developers understand why it works\, and how to explain to their employe
 rs that it solves their problems\, too.
LOCATION:CEME 1212
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/389/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Building the Fediverse
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T173000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T181500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234226Z
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chris Trottier\nA panel of experts who share insights
  on what to do (and not do).
LOCATION:MCLD 2018
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/473/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Right to Repair and the Future of Ownership
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T173000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T181500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234226Z
UID:322@2026.fossy.ca
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Kyle Wiens\nRight to repair laws have passed in ten U
 S states (and Quebec!).  Hear personal accounts from the leader of the wor
 ldwide movement as the fight for ownership rages on. From tractor data to 
 television software\, we're levering open systems that were supposed to be
  closed.
LOCATION:MCLD 3014
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/476/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Talk
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T173000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T181500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234226Z
UID:352@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:MCLD 2012
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:"Magnifica Humanitas" and FOSS
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T173000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T181500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234226Z
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Eric Schultz\nOn May 25\, the Vatican released "Magni
 fica Humanitas"\; Pope Leo XIV's long anticipated encyclical on “preserv
 ing the human person in the age of artificial intelligence”. While prima
 rily focused on artificial intelligence\, the encyclical is a wide ranging
  document on human dignity in the digital world using arguments that have 
 overlap with the arguments of the FOSS and digital autonomy movements.\n\n
 Using the lens of a secular\, digital autonomy activist\, Eric Schultz wal
 ks through the core philosophical arguments of “Magnifica Humanitas”\,
  shares the parallels with our very own movement’s philosophical princip
 les and considers whether “Magnifica Humanitas” helps move us closer t
 o a world where FOSS and digital autonomy are the norm.
LOCATION:MCLD 3002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/427/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Talk
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T173000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260807T181500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234226Z
UID:415@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:MCLD 2012
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Talk
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T173000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T181500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234226Z
UID:324@2026.fossy.ca
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:MCLD 3038
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FireSide Fedi (Panel)
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T173000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260808T181500
DTSTAMP:20260718T234226Z
UID:304@2026.fossy.ca
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Anthony Zone\nYour favorite podcast ( you know the on
 e. The one that's live streamed at FiresideFedi.live and the VODS hosted a
 t tubefree.org/@firesidefedi )\nMORE LIVE-ER\nthan EVER!\n\nFIRESIDE FEDI 
 LIVE\n\n& IN PERSON!\n\n They said it couldn't be done! But we're doing it
 !\nTalking with software developers live and on stage\n\nFive of them!\n\n
 Without a NET!\n\nAnd this time the STAKES are even HIGHER! Live studio au
 dience of RABID fedizens!\n\nRabid for content!\n\nWITH SPECIAL GUEST:\nJO
 HN MASTODON! *Cancelled*\n\nThis won't be just any normal show!\nWe'll als
 o be speaking with these following extraordinary people:\n\n- Dan Supernau
 lt - @dansup@mastodon.social\nCurrently building @pixelfed\, @loops\, @sup
 app\, @fedidb\, and more.\n\n- Django Doucet - @django@social.coop -\nAt C
 oLab.coop \, Django is a developer for WordPress sites. His approach is pe
 ople-centric\, which influences the usability\, performance and accessibil
 ity of his designs.\n\n- Vagrant Cascasian - @vagrantc@floss.social - '\nI
 nvolved in various FOSS projects such as ReproducibleBuilds\, Debian\, Gui
 x and so much more. Passionate about Aikido and Solar hobbyist.\n\n- Matt 
 Baer - @matt@writing.exchange -\nFounder https://writing.exchange/@write_a
 s \,  https://musing.studio\nLead dev https://writing.exchange/@writefreel
 y\nCo-organizer https://gram.social/nycphotostroll\nAdmin @ https://Writin
 g.Exchange\n\n- Ben Pate - @benpate@mastodon.social -\nBen is the nerd who
 's building https://emissary.dev/ - an ActivityPub server for building cus
 tom social applications on the Fediverse.\nFirst app on this platform is a
  music sharing server for indie bands\, called https://bandwagon.fm/ . He'
 s also working on https://atlasmaps.org/\, a social mapping server for add
 ing Federated annotations to places in the real world.\n\nWe're getting to
  the truth and asking them the HARD HITTING questions!\nQuestions like:\n\
 nPie or Cake?\nRed\, Blue or Green?\nBest Fediverse Application?\n\nDon't 
 forget to catch us at FediCon Aug 8th! https://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/pres
 entation/465/\n\nIT\n\nWILL\n\nBE\n\nhopefully\, honestly just a really a 
 lovely time really!
LOCATION:CEME 1202
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/465/
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SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Talk
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DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:MCLD 2002
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Algol 68 and the GNU Algol 68 toolchain
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Pietro Monteiro\nAlgol 68 is an extremely powerful pr
 ogramming language\, one of the most elegant and expressive ever designed\
 , yet it has been almost entirely forgotten by modern programmers. The GNU
  Algol 68 Working Group is a group of hackers hellbent on achieving Algol 
 68 world domination. This session will explore what we are doing and how y
 ou can get involved. \n\nThe Working Group 2.1 of the International Federa
 tion for Information Processing (IFIP) designed Algol 68 in the 1960s/70s.
  The working group's goals were threefold: to design a programming languag
 e that could efficiently run on a large variety of computer architectures\
 , to improve the communication about algorithms in the nascent field of co
 mputer science\, and to aid in teaching algorithms (and programming) to st
 udents. This combination of goals led to the creation of the concept of or
 thogonality in programming language design and the development of two-leve
 l grammars (or van-Wijngaarden grammars) to formally describe the new lang
 uage.\n\nThe session will cover: (1) the architecture of the GNU Algol 68 
 GCC front-end\; (2) practical examples of modern build systems for Algol 6
 8 programs and how to interface with other programming languages (eg. acce
 ssing C libraries from Algol 68)\; (3) the design principles guiding langu
 age extensions\; and (4) opportunities to contribute to the project.
LOCATION:CEME 1212
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/382/
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SUMMARY:Low Cost Storage with SMR: State of the Art and Future Work
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Damien Le Moal\nShingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) bri
 ngs significant storage cost reduction for various workloads (e.g. Cloud\,
  AI inference\, backup\, archive) by enabling more storage capacity and re
 liability. Adoption of SMR in production systems has accelerated in recent
  years\, and over 65% of the Exabytes shipped in 2026 are forecast to be S
 MR. The Linux kernel supports SMR HDDs since version 4.10\, released in 20
 17. After nearly ten years upstream\, this support is now mature\, with si
 gnificant improvements compared to its early days. Several kernel file sys
 tems now natively supporting SMR\, or zoned block devices in general.\n\nT
 his presentation starts with discussing the general characteristics of the
  kernel support for zoned block devices and the most recent kernel changes
  in this area to improve ease of use for end-users as well as for develope
 rs. Best practices for application development are discussed and illustrat
 ed with some performance results for workloads using a block device and us
 ing a file system\, showing the viability of SMR compared to regular HDDs.
  Several features under consideration and development (prototyping phase) 
 are also presented\, including on-going work to support HDD data-preservin
 g head depopulation and its integration within file systems.
LOCATION:CEME 1210
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/450/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2026: Social Event
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20260806T220000
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DESCRIPTION:Official Thursday Night Event
URL:http://2026.fossy.ca
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